1640 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Atlanta Exposition. 
August 18, 1894. 
Sundry civil act for 1895. 
For an exhibit by the Government of the United States of such 
articles and materials as illustrate the function and administrative fac- 
ulty of the Government, to be made at the Cotton States and Interna- 
tional Exposition, to be held at Atlanta, Georgia, in the year 1895, 
and for the employment of proper persons as officers and assistants 
by the board of management hereinafter created, and for the mainte- 
nance of the building hereinafter provided for, and for other contin- 
gent expenses incidental to the Government exhibit, to be approved 
by the chairman of the board of management and by the Secretary of 
the Treasury upon itemized accounts and vouchers, $150,000, or so 
much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the board of 
management, of which not exceeding $10,000 shall be expended for 
clerical services. And to secure a complete and harmonious arrange- 
ment of said Government exhibit a board of management shall be 
created, to be charged with the selection, purchase, preparation, 
transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of 
such articles and materials as the heads of the Executive Departments, 
the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United 
States Fish Commission may respectively decide shall be embraced in 
said Government exhibit. The President may also designate addi- 
tional articles for exhibition. Such board shall be composed of one 
member to be detailed by the head of each Executive Department, 
one by the head of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, 
and one by the head of the United States Fish Commission, and the 
President shall name one of said members as chairman. 
But the United States shall not, in any manner nor under any cir- 
cumstances, be liable for any of the acts, doings, proceedings, or repre- 
sentations of the said Cotton States and International Exposition, 
organized under the laws of the State of Georgia, its officers, agents, 
servants, or employees, or any of them, or for the service, salaries, 
labor, or wages of said officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any 
of them, or for any subscriptions to the capital stock, or for any cer- 
tificates of stock, bonds, mortgages, or obligations of any kind issued 
by said corporation, or for any debts, liabilities, or expenses incidental 
to the exposition: Provided, however, That all articles which shall be 
imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at 
said exposition, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, 
shall be admitted free of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such 
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it 
shall be lawful at any time during the exposition to sell, for delivery 
at the close of the exposition, any goods or property imported for and 
